hello this is jack from tofluency.com and welcome to this lesson where you are going to learn vocabulary related to cars and to drive in so I'm going to do this by showing you various videos of people doing things in cars and I'm going to explain what they're doing and give you the right vocabulary and phrases to use so that you can talk about driving cars as well now to make the most out of this video be sure to check out the description so that you can see a list of the phrases that we use in
this lesson and I'm also on my website going to give you some extra examples so click the link in the description to get those examples so you can better understand these phrases so before you start driving there are a few things you have to do you have to get your keys either find them in your house if you constantly misplace them or you need to take them out of your pocket then you need to unlock your car open the door and then get in the car now once you're in the car you can see here the per
son put in on their seatbelt so you put on your seatbelt you can also fasten your seatbelt now you'll hear parents safe things like we're not going anywhere until you put on your seatbelt if their children don't want to put their seatbelt on I have been there so we're not going anywhere until you put on your seatbelt then you take off the handbrake so always remember to take off your handbrake and then you start the car now if you're ever late for work and you need an excuse you can say I'm sorr
y I'm late my car wouldn't start ok I'll explain that grammar tense in the description it's important to know some differences between driving in America and driving in the UK now if you get a car in the UK it's probably going to be a manual car which means that you have to change gears you have to put it into first put it into second put it into third and so on but if you get a car in America then it's most likely going to be automatic which means that you just put it into drive and just go now
this was a little bit strange for me at first but I soon got used to it and it's so much easier just put in your car into drive and go in in an automatic car you can put the car into reverse into drive into a low gear or into Park another difference is the amount of pedals in an automatic and manual car so in an automatic car you have the brake pedal and then gas so you can step on the brake or step on the gas you'll also hear people say hit the gas hit the gas in manual cars in the UK you have
three pedals the clutch which you need to step on in order to change gears you have the brake and then the accelerator so in the UK we say step on the accelerator in the u.s. we say step on the gas there are various buttons on the dashboard that do certain things a lot of the time we can use the phrasal verb to turn on okay or put on for example turn on the radio turn on the AC turn on the heating turn on the hazard lights and you can also turn up and turn down turn up the radio turn up the hea
ting turn down the AC it's too cold in here turn down the AC and if things get a little bit warm instead of putting on the AC you can also put the windows down to put the windows down in the past people used to also say wind the windows down but now everything is more or less automatic the next thing I want to talk about is the indicator now I find that a lot of people when driving in America don't indicate this is very frustrating because you don't know where the car is going to go next and thi
s is useful information for other drivers and for pedestrians I find that in the UK people indicate all the time now it might just be where I live in America but this is something I have definitely noticed so the noun here in the UK is indicators and in America you'll hear people say blinkers or turn signals when it comes to your speed you can say we're doing 70 miles an hour or we're going 70 miles an hour so in the UK in America we use miles per hour and not kilometers per hour if someone is g
oing or driving too fast you can say slow down if they're going too slow you can say come on speed up speed up a little bit if you're helping somebody with directions you can say turn left here or take your second right or go straight ahead at the roundabout or you missed your turn again listen to me driving can be a little bit frustrating at rush hour because there is so much traffic on the road you might hear people say it's bumper-to-bumper or we're not moving at all or has it been an acciden
t we're not moving at all but when the roads are clear and you're no rush to get somewhere driving can be very enjoyable especially if you have good music on the radio good snacks in the car and it's not too hot outside so you can open the windows to bring in a fresh breeze once you have finished driving you take off your seatbelt put on the handbrake turn off the car get out of the car and then always remember to lock the doors here are some other phrases that you might hear let's set off at 7:
00 a.m. so to set off means to start your journey so let's set off at 7:00 a.m. or do you think we should set off early morning or do you think we should set off before 7:00 if you're going on a long journey you can save things like it's a long drive let's get a good night's sleep it's a long drive and the last one I want to share with you is this a backseat driver now to be a backseat driver means that you're given directions and you're constantly telling people how to drive if you're not drivi
ng so saying things like slow down turn left here I'd put it in third gear you're a bit close to that car in front if you constantly say things like that then you are a backseat driver okay I hope you found that lesson enjoyable if you did then please click that like button and share it with your friends and again check out the description because I'll list all the phrases are used in this lesson and go to my website to see some other examples too if you are new here then subscribe to this chann
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